Undeads are walking

From Cluj to Athene - Part 1

In the city of Cluj-Napoca, in Romania, at a gas station, there is a woman at a young age, who has got long pink hair, she is tall and slim not like a plank, much like a teenage girl with an athletic body. She is sitting at the table where she scans the groceries or the people who are taking the gas from those pumps. She has one client, who is a bald man wearing a black vest with a white dirt shirt with a logo, who resembles a fisherman using a spear instead of fishing equipment. The man asks the lady about a pack of cigars, and she gives it to him. The man quickly gives him the money and then leaves without taking the paper, called "Bon Fiscal" in Romanian, but in English it is known as a receipt. She takes that receipt, and throws it in the trash, like the other receipts, since customers don't take them most of the time. After she did that, her boss came to her and told her.

"Ana. You have to arrange the things on their shelves."

"Where is Gus?" she asks the boss, since it is his duty to do this thing.

"I have no idea, but when he comes back, I will put him to do the shift on weekends. Now go and do this job or else I will be cutting your salary." and leaves.

"Like you always do." she says, turning her eyes upside down for a moment and going to do the job for that lazy co-worker who is most likely smoking another cigar in the back of the store.

She got the goods. The boss put them somewhere obvious, and she proceeded to arrange them and put them in order on their shelves. She first started with dairy products. She first arranged the milk which contains fifty percent grease, and then she started with the ones with thirty percentage grease. After she finished with the milk, she started with yogurt, delicious fruit yogurts with strawberries, blueberry, bananas, mango, honey, biscuits and so many different flavors that would even make Terry from Brooklyn 99 comedy show feel energized to go directly to Romania and buy a random yogurt product from a random small store.

After she finished with the dairy products, she went to the fruit section, but before she was about to put bananas on the specified part, she heard a scream. She goes up, looks behind her, and runs to the back store. There, she sees one of her co-workers who is bitten by a crazy guy, who seems like a homeless person, but in reality, it is something much more terrifying.

"Help! Help me, Ana!" says the guy who smoked earlier and let poor Ana do his task.

Ana quickly jumped back to her reality, and pushed that zombie from the co-worker and screamed at him.

"Leave him alone, or I will call the police!"

The "man" growls like a man in his thirties who hasn't drunk his eight-eight coffee in the morning. That thing looks at Ana, and he is slowly getting up to his feet.

Ana quickly puts out her peeper spray she carries every time she leaves the store to walk to her home. In Cluj there are a lot of predators who would jump on Ana, abduct her and do different things to her, either selling her organs, forcing her to become a prostitute, or worse, making her pregnant and leaving her alone with the baby. She sprayed that thing in the face, but it didn't work out, so she threw the thing into the monster's face and nothing happened. The thing was getting on its feet now and it was trying to catch Ana, but she decided to push its beast one more time. The beast fell down on the ground, and she dragged her co-worker into the store, to at least help him to stop the bleeding that the crazy man did to him.

The co-worker was not that heavy to be dragged by Ana, who used to drag things much heavier. Sure, it doesn't look like she could pull it out, but back in high school, she used to work at her father's business, which specializes in construction. She built complex buildings, while girls at her age are building friends, memories and chances to get pregnant. Ana throws her co-worker into the building's interior, and then she closes the door behind her and blocks with three heavy boxes which contain watermelons and bananas.

"Good. I think we-"

But when she turned around, she saw her co-worker getting on his feet, and having those weird looking veins on his face, those eyes without any color, a dry mouth, and growling. Ana didn't know what this thing was, or what this virus was because, like any girl without friends, she didn't spend her nights reading horror stories. She used her free time working to achieve a good life, but now, she works as a part-timer store clerk just to pay for her studies at University Construction.

"Andrei... Are you... alright?" asks Ana, looking scared at Andrei.

But, before the thing was close to using his attack senses to bite Ana, her boss came there, and yelled at both of them to stop idling and continue their work. And at that moment, Andrei, in his zombie form, ignored Ana and jumped at his boss. He caught his boss, and started biting him alive. Ana took a canned food, and she some weapon to smash it into Andrei's head, but she simply smashed it. The thing suddenly stopped for a moment. He turned back, but before he was close to biting Ana, she did an incredible thing. She used the canned food to cover Andrei's mouth, and she pushed him onto a shelf.

That zombie corpse hit the shelf, and fell on his back, with almost a few thousand kilograms of soda, water, and beer. The zombie was now under the heavy shelf and cannot move since the plastic and metal bottles were blocking his way. Now, Ana can escape this place and find help, but she decides to take a look at Andrei and try to ask him.

"What happened to you?"

But the corpse, which was Andrei, one time, only screamed at her and used his hand, trying to reach for her, but the distance between them was too far. Ana looked at her boss, who was covering his wounds made by the zombie on his arms with towels from the nearby shelf. The boss looked at Ana scared and told her to call for help. She immediately goes to the counter, takes the phone there and calls for help. She dialed 112 (emergency service phone number in Romania), but when she dialed that phone, a robotic message told her.

"Warning! The event known as the Zombie Apocalypse has begun. Everyone who gets bitten or scratched by a zombie must treat themselves or kill themselves. There are also hospitals opened, but only for people safe from beaten marks or scratches made by the creatures called zombies. Seek shelter far from the city or jump on one of the planes at the airport which will transport the remaining survivors to the uninhibited islands, far from our continent."

And then it closes. Ana looked quickly at the boss who was dying slowly, and she tried to dial 112 again, but it gave the same message. She looks at her, and tries to dial that number again, but again, it gave the same message.

Ana looked at her boss, who was looking mercifully at her, but Ana, realizing that people are now transforming into these creatures. If they are bitten or scratched, she listens to the robotic voice message. She would go to the airport. But before she was about to leave this place which used to be her part-time Hell, she took a backpack, a few supplies and left while she left her boss bleeding to death and screaming at her. But Ana said one last thing to her boss before she truly left this building with a "stolen" backpack and supplies.

"Goodbye, you nasty Boss!"

And she truly left the store, leaving her boss bleeding to death, screaming at her to come back. But this scream made his situation worse because the zombie had successfully freed himself by just sliding, and jumped on the laid boss who is going to be eaten by his co-worker Andrei.